TY - JOUR
T1 - Priorities to Advance Monitoring of Ecosystem Services Using Earth Observation
AU - Cord, Anna F.
AU - Brauman, Kate A.
AU - Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca
AU - Huth, Andreas
AU - Ziv, Guy
AU - Seppelt, Ralf
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - Managing ecosystem services in the context of global sustainability policies requires reliable monitoring mechanisms. While satellite Earth observation offers great promise to support this need, significant challenges remain in quantifying connections between ecosystem functions, ecosystem services, and human well-being benefits. Here, we provide a framework showing how Earth observation together with socioeconomic information and model-based analysis can support assessments of ecosystem service supply, demand, and benefit, and illustrate this for three services. We argue that the full potential of Earth observation is not yet realized in ecosystem service studies. To provide guidance for priority setting and to spur research in this area, we propose five priorities to advance the capabilities of Earth observation-based monitoring of ecosystem services.
AB - Managing ecosystem services in the context of global sustainability policies requires reliable monitoring mechanisms. While satellite Earth observation offers great promise to support this need, significant challenges remain in quantifying connections between ecosystem functions, ecosystem services, and human well-being benefits. Here, we provide a framework showing how Earth observation together with socioeconomic information and model-based analysis can support assessments of ecosystem service supply, demand, and benefit, and illustrate this for three services. We argue that the full potential of Earth observation is not yet realized in ecosystem service studies. To provide guidance for priority setting and to spur research in this area, we propose five priorities to advance the capabilities of Earth observation-based monitoring of ecosystem services.
KW - biodiversity
KW - ecosystem function
KW - ecosystem service demand
KW - ecosystem service supply
KW - remote sensing
KW - standardization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2017.03.003
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2017.03.003
M3 - Review article
C2 - 28411950
AN - SCOPUS:85017462495
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 32
SP - 416
EP - 428
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
IS - 6
ER -
